Let’s take a look at a shortlist of good-to-great films with jazz as its central theme (excluding documentaries…): “Bird“ “Round Midnight“ “Mo’ Better Blues“ “Sweet And Lowdown“ “Sweet Love, Bitter“ “Tune in Tomorrow…“ “Paris Blues“ “St. Louis Blues“ “The Benny Goodman Story“ “The Glenn Miller Story“ “Young Man with a Horn“ “Lady Sings the Blues“ … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: July 2008
babble / don cheadle / news
The Miles Davis Movie: Well… not really, but a post about its star
As we all know Don Cheadle is set to star as Miles Davis in the big screen biopic, which he will also direct. But the actor has other non-Miles Davis movie projects to deal with, namely Traitor, a drama about a special operative working with a terrorist group becomes the target of the CIA. First … Continue reading »
babble / biopic / movie scenes
The Miles Davis Movie: Filming the ‘Birth of the Cool’
I read a very interesting article in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal from Tom Nolan (Hidden in Plain Hearing) about the beginnings of cool jazz and what is often referred to as the ‘Birth of the Cool.’ And when you mention the Birth of the Cool you quickly think of Miles Davis, the classic nonet … Continue reading »
Happy 4th of July!
The Miles Davis Movie: Let’s check the (virtual) stock market
Having spent an enjoyable 2+ years at HSX.com way back in the halcyon days of the tech boom I know my way around a virtual trading floor. So I ventured over to the Hollywood Stock Exchange to see how the stock for the Miles Davis Biopic has been performing, even though it’s still early. As … Continue reading »
babble / biopic / movie scenes / screenplay
The Miles Davis Movie: What scene would you especially like to see in the movie?
Let’s not spend the next 100 hours dissecting every important and negligible detail in the life of Miles Davis. However, there are numerous moments of public record that serve as significant milestones during the life and times of the great jazz man. No doubt many of those moments will make their way into the film … Continue reading »
The Miles Davis Movie: A few words about magazines
Safe to say most general movie magazines will have something in the way of a feature (big or small) about the Miles Davis movie; Entertainment Weekly, Fade In and Empire fit the bill here. Then there are trade titles like Creative Screenwriting, Film Comment and Filmmaker who will most likely take a deeper look into … Continue reading »
